Resources on Art & Theology

The art of Dom Gregory de Wit utilizes brilliant color and bold outlines to portray scenes from scripture. His paintings strike an emotional cord.

Art, Jesus, Crucifixion, Creation

Roundup: Advent art, songs, poems

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Song or Hymn, Artwork, Article about Music

Victoria Emily Jones' post for Advent features a collection of visual art and vocal performances on audio or video.

Advent, Peace, Beauty, Coming Of Christ

Lent devotionals with Arts Component

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Scripture Meditation or Sermon, Artwork, Article

In this article, Victoria Emily Jones highlights several resources with devotional content that integrate the arts.

Lent, Devotion, Art And The Church

Southwestern Sacred Art

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Victoria Emily Jones catalogs and reflects on sacred art encountered in a trip through New Mexico. Features several crucifixes, as well as Jewish art focused on Old Testament moments and figures.

Art, Crucifixion, Nativity, Desert

Pentecost art from Asia

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This blog post by Victoria Emily Jones introduces arts from Asia depicting Pentecost. The Spirit is still at work building up an incredibly diverse body of Christ and the arts are one expression of this diversity.

Acts 2:3

Art, Pentecost, Holy Spirit, Asia

Yoruba Christmas carol and art (Nigeria)

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Song or Hymn, Artwork, Article about Music

Victoria Emily Jones presents a video of the Yoruba Christmas Carol “Betelehemu” by Babatunde Olatunji, arranged for men’s choir by Wendell P. Whalum. Also included are examples of Yoruba art.

Art, Christmas, Praise, Nativity

Scorsese’s “Silence”: Turning Theology into Art

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Victoria Emily Jones discusses the 2016 film "Silence" and highlights related art, all of which deals with the plight and persecution of Christians in early modern Japan.

Art, Jesuit, Persecution, Endurance

The (in)visibility of theology in contemporary art criticism

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Article about Artwork

Victoria Emily Jones highlights a presentation by Jonathan Anderson that "examines the problematic absence of theologically informed criticism from contemporary art discourse."

Art, Culture, C. S. Lewis, Art And The Church

Walking the Via Dolorosa through Amsterdam (Part 3)

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This is the final part of a commentary on Art Stations of the Cross: Troubled Waters, a multisite exhibition in Amsterdam. The author offers reflections on sacred art, discussing the messages each piece passes to us.

Art, Lament, Sorrow, Church

Joyful Lent

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Song or Hymn and 3 more types

Victory Emily Jones' post on joy in Lent, based on Genesis 9:8-17, features Sawai Chinnawong's acrylic art "Genesis 9:13" and audio of Domenico Scarlatti's Keyboard Sonata in C Major.

Genesis 9:8-17

Song or Hymn, Artwork, Article about Music

Lent, Joy, Love, Mercy

Creation Psalm

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Victoria Emily Jones' post features five of Barbara Wolff's art pieces based on Psalm 104, and a video of the psalm sung in ancient Hebrew, arranged by Yonnie (Jonathan) Dror.

Psalm 104

Praise, Creation, God, Animals

On How to See

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John Berger—essayist, novelist, poet, screenwriter, art critic—loves to help people see what is around them, teach them how to look at the world. His life’s work is dedicated to this endeavor.

The Art of Contemplative Seeing as Modeled by Moses

Art, Hospitality, Vision

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Book Quote, Artwork, Article about Artwork

The story of Moses’s divine calling suggests that God rewards attentiveness; he is present to those who take time to slow down and notice things.

Exodus 3:1-4; Psalm 119:18

Art, Contemplation, Moses

Spiritual Imagination in the Art of Igor Paneyko

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Victoria Emily Jones examines the work of Ukrainian New Wave artist Igor Paneyko (b.1957) with particular reference to the spiritual imagination in his work.

Art, Imagination, Spirituality, Madonna In Art

Marian art at Dumbarton Oaks

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Victoria Emily Jones describes the history and context of six Marian artworks on her blog, from the Dumbarton Oaks Museum in Washington DC. These include paintings, sculpture, and tapestry from a variety of geographic regions.

Art, Mary, Sculpture, Tapestry

In Antwerp Cathedral’s latest art acquisition, a skeptic weighs the truth of Christianity

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Victoria Emily Jones reflects on Jan Fabre’s contemporary self-portrait sculpture, “The Man Who Holds the Cross,” at a Belgium Cathedral, writing that it invites viewers to decide to accept Christ crucified or to reject Christ.

Art, Truth, Cross, Agnosticism

Book of Revelation in Art

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Victoria Emily Jones shares several artistic responses to the book of Revelation.

The Stations of the Cross in Contemporary Art

Art, Revelation

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Victoria Emily Jones highlights several contemporary projects that depict the stations of the cross, including one exhibit that developed out of experience with survivors of torture, and also a video that combines several interpretations.

Art, Lent, Crucifixion, Suffering

Choose

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Song or Hymn and 3 more types

Victoria Emily Jones' post on choosing to worship God over idolatry (Joshua 24:14-15), includes art by Cindy Jackson, quotes from David Foster Wallace and Tim Keller, and audio of Bob Dylan's song "Gotta Serve Somebody."

Joshua 24:14-15

Art, Worship, Idolatry, David

Folly of the Cross

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Scripture Meditation or Sermon, Song or Hymn, Artwork

This devotion by Victoria Emily Jones showcases art (a particularly interesting ancient graffiti mocking the Christian faith) and song about the crucifixion, considering the challenge of depicting the paradox of the cross, per 1 Corinthians 1:18–25.

1 Corinthians 1:18-25